Defenition of the word prickleback

• Defenition of the word prickleback

  • small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas; a long dorsal fin consists entirely of spines
  • small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research

Synonyms for the word prickleback

• • stickleback

Meronymys for the word prickleback

• • family Gasterosteidae
  • Gasterosteidae

Hyponyms for the word prickleback

• • eelblenny
  • Gasterosteus aculeatus
  • Gasterosteus pungitius
  • Lumpenus lumpretaeformis
  • snakeblenny
  • ten-spined stickleback
  • three-spined stickleback

Hypernyms for the word prickleback

• • acanthopterygian
  • blennioid
  • blennioid fish
  • spiny-finned fish

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